Fastener for tool-handles.



No. 851,065. PATENTED APR. 23, 1907.

T. J. GHENEY.

FASTBNER FOR TOOL HANDLES.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 18. 1906.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FASTENE'FI FOB TOOL-H/ANDLES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

, Patented April 23, 1307.

Application filed July 18,1966. Serial 3263.

To all whom, it may eoncerfi:

Be it known that I, TnoMAs J (JnENEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Lodi,

in the county of Medina and State of Ohio,

have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fasteners for Tool-Handles, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to 1m rovements in fasteners for tool-handles, an es ecially of that class of tools in which there 1s a handle secured in an eye, su'ch as hammers, axes, hatchets, and tools of similar character.

The primary object of the invention is to provide a generally improved device of this character which will be exceedingly simple in construction, cheap of manufacture, efficient in use, and much better adapted to its intended purposes than any other device of the same class with which I am acquainted.

With these ends. in view, the invention consists in the novel construction, arrangement and combination of parts, hereinafter descrilwd, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and particularly pointed out in the appended claims.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this'specification, Figure 1, is a side view, partly in section, of a tool embodying my invention. sectional view taken through line 2, 2, of Fig. 1. Fig. 3, a detail view of the improved spring-fastener.

view of the end of the handle provided with an o ening and grooves or recesses on each side or the reception of said spring-fastener. Fig. 5, a'cross-sedional view taken through line 5, 5, of Fig. 1.

Similar cl'iaraeters of reference designate likeparts throughout all the figures of the drawings.

The tool body 1', and the handle 2, may be of the usual construction, but the eye 3, for the rece tion of the end of the tool handle, is provide with diametrically-ogposite recesses or sockets 4, designed to ta e over and be engaged by spring-arms 5, of a springfastener 6, preferably formed of steel springwire, the main body portion of which passes through a transverse opening 7, of the end of the handle taking into the eye of the tool.

The spring-arms 5, are bent rearwardly, and, in order to form a seat or pocket forthe same when bent at right angles to the main body portion thereof, when the handle is be ing driven home in the eye of the tool body preparatory to being automatically fastened Fig. 2, a transverse' Fig. 4, a detail perspective and engaged within said eye, a pair of oppositely-disposed longitudinal grooves or recesses 8, are formed in the handle, as shown most clearly in Figs. 1, and 4, of the drawings. When it is desired to insert and fasten the handle in the eye of the tool, a steel springwire of suitable length (preferably having one end bent to form one of the spring-arms 5) is mounted in the transverseopening 7, and bent to the form-most clearly shown in Figs. 1, and 3, of the drawings, after which the handle is driven home in the eye of the tool body, theends of the spring-arms 5, snappinginto ngagement with the oppositely-disposed sockets 4, of the eye as soon asthey have passed the inner edges of the approximately registering and being in alinement with said sockets.

From the foregoing description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawvention will be readily understood.

Having thus described the invention, without having attempted to set forth all the forms in which it maybe made, or all the modes of its use, I declare that what 1 claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is,-

1. A fastener for tool-handles, consisting of an eye formed in the body of the tool and provided with diametrically-opposite sock ets, a handle taking into said eye and provided with a transverse opening and grooves extending from said opening, and a springfastening mounted in said transverse 0 )en ing and provided with spring-arms ta ing into said sockets ofthe eye.

2. A fastener for tool-handles, consisting of an eye formed in the tool body, recesses or sockets formed within said eye, a handle mounted therein and provided with a transand a spring-fastening mounted in said transverse 0 ening and provided with sprmg-arms normali ed to be bent within said grooves when t 1e handle is inserted in said e e.

3. In a fastener for tooliandles, a springfastener having the main body portion there of passing throu h the end of the handle Vided with rearwardly extending springarms surrounded by and engaging the tool within said eye.

4. In a fastener for tool handles, the combination with a tool-eye provided with socksame, the longitudinal grooves or recesses 8, a

verse opening and grooves within said eye,

ings', the operation and advantages of my iny taking into said sockets and ada tmounted within t e eye of the tool, and proets, and a handle mounted therein andpro- In testimony whereof I have signed my vided with a transverse opening and grooves name to this specification in the presence of 10 extending rearwardly from saidlopening; of two subscribing Witnesses.

a'. spring-wire mounted 1 n sau transverse v 9 opening and provided wlth rearvyardly-ex- 4 THOMAS CHENEX' tending spring-arms normally restmg wrthin i- Witnesses:

said sockets and adapted to be bent wlthin O. C. BILLMAN,

said grooves. H. T. GETTINs. 

